Editors go electro

The band count Terminator theme as inspiration for album number three

09 December 2008 - Frontman Tom Smith of Editors has revealed that the band have been coming up with new ideas for the follow up to their 2007 album, An End Has A Start.

And it seems they are being more experimental, as Smith told 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq last night (8 December).

“There’s kind of a real electronic sheen to it,” he said. “A lot of it to me sounds like it could soundtrack Bladerunner, and we’ve been listening to the Terminator theme quite a lot as well.

“We keep referencing that, but at the moment we’re just trying as many different things as we can.”

He went on to say that they have enlisted the help of some other musicians: “In one of the demo sessions we had a choir of children come along and sing at the end of one of these songs.

“Another day Russell [Leetch]’s girlfriend, who plays violin with Ra Ra Riot, came down and played on a couple of songs.”

"A lot of it to me sounds like it could soundtrack Bladerunner, and we’ve been listening to the Terminator theme quite a lot as well."
Tom Smith

So far, they have 18 songs already written and the singer explained that they want to work on the material together, for longer, before getting a producer in.

“With this one we want to have a bigger body of work and demo songs on our own before we take that step,” Smith explained. “We’re going to keep writing and I think in February next year, we will have this big batch, and then we can pick the record and the producer then.”

Their second album The Back Room was nominated for the Mercury Prize back in 2006.

For now, Smith said they have had a bit of a welcome break from each other since their last tour: “Two of the band live in New York now and Ed [Lay] lives in Birmingham. I live in London so when we’re not on tour, or recording, or rehearsing, we don’t really hang out any more.”

Georgie Rogers